A family dinner of eight people in a private home in the city of Madrid on July 4 has caused a new outbreak of coronavirus, the fourth since the state of alarm in the capital rose. This was reported this Wednesday by the Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid that has notified five positives to the Ministry of Health, two in the region itself and three in Galicia, although none of them are hospitalized.

This outbreak arising from the family environment of a Madrid residence also records 61 contacts that affect five autonomous communities since three of the positives and two of the contacts present at the dinner returned to their places of origin traveling on two trains, a national flight and Private vehicles. These contacts are already identified by the Community of Madrid in Galicia, Castilla y León, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Andalusia.

As reported in a statement this Wednesday by the General Directorate of Public Health in Madrid, the affected communities have all the information to be able to monitor them, since the different autonomous governments have worked collaboratively to identify and contain the outbreak. For this reason, in the 61 contacts notified by the Community of Madrid are the closest people who have shared space on the two trains, the flight and the private car that those affected used to return to their places of origin.

This is the fourth outbreak that the department headed by Enrique Ruiz Escudero detects in the capital, second in a family environment after the one notified on July 10 that affected three homes in the city of Madrid and left seven positive cases for Covid. The remaining two occurred in the workplace on July 3 and 10 with seven and four positives respectively.

In the statement issued this Wednesday by the Ministry of Health, it is stated that these cases remain unchanged and the total number of positives since the alarm was lifted is estimated at 23 caused by outbreaks of coronavirus in the region.

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